The Midway & The First Kiss...

Saturday - January 12, 2008... Sarah & Kevin... our friends & neighbors. Kevin & Mike work together on the Pelelui. Sarah & I just go shopping together and plan dinners together. But This time we went on a date, which was a lot of fun! Mike & I road our car and Sarah & Kevin road their motorcycle.
Our First stop on our date was the USS Midway. I looked up some history about the Midway.

“Midway Magic” is a historical fact. It was a term known throughout the Navy as the USS Midway steamed through a 47-year career of service to country. Imagine a carrier that was commissioned in 1945 and served as a flagship in Desert Storm in 1991. No other carrier served as long as the USS Midway.
Time and again Midway remained on station when other carriers broke down and headed for port. It was almost magical how the crew and carrier responded to every call—both military and humanitarian.
The USS Midway set new standards of naval aviation in the latter half of the 20th century. A captured German V-2 rocket was launched off the USS Midway in 1947—the dawn of naval missile warfare. The USS Midway blazed new trails of sub-Arctic air operations off the coast of Greenland. It was the first carrier homeported in a foreign country, calling Yokosuka, Japan home for 18 years. When others came home, the USS Midway remained at the “tip of the sword” on an odyssey shared by 225,000 Americans that spanned the surrender of Japan in WWII, the Cold War, Vietnam, the era of détente and Desert Storm.
No other carrier carries such a proud—many say “magical”—tradition of diligence, vigilance and mission completion. Midway Magic was real. And it continues today on her final mission as an interactive museum, tribute and education center.
Our next stop was at the First Kiss...

We walked to the First Kiss. Our dates, our husbands, bought us the shirts we are wearing. The shirt says "We Can Do it!"... Rosie the Riveter is on the shirt.

V-J Day, Aug. 14, 1945 -- World War II is finally over and New York's Times Square has erupted in spontaneous celebration.
Suddenly a handsome sailor pulls a young nurse into an embrace. The iconic image of that kiss, immortalized by the photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt in Life magazine, became the symbol of a joyful nation's victory.

After we took photo's and walked around. We went back home. Mike & Kevin played racket ball and Sarah & I went to buy fish. We cooked, had dinner together. It was a great, fun day!